LADY, PLEASE (1932) Arthur Stone, Dorothy Granger

[Richard M Roberts]

Well, we go from a nice late Sennett silent with Bathing Beauties to perhaps not the worse Mack Sennett talkie ever made, but such a drop in quality.

Released by Educational Pictures February 28, 1932, directed by Babe Stafford, it has a nice cast: Arthur Stone, Dorothy Granger, Helen Mann, Walter Long, Bud Jamison, Julia Griffith, Joe Young, Bobby Dunn and William McCall, but the Sennett talkie lethargy, not as severe as a year or two earlier, but remains in degrees nevertheless. Nothing particularly original, and they have the gall to redo Harry Langdon's stair-climbing bit from THE STRONG MAN:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8_FqIgAW5k

RICHARD M ROBERTS